LETTER: Planned Parenthood philosophies

Planned Parenthood Federation of America dates its beginning to Oct. 16, 1916, when Margaret Sanger opened the nation's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn.

Sanger had three basic philosophies that are still active within Planned Parenthood today:

oA desire for uninhibited sexual activity.

oAn aversion to large families, which led her to champion birth control including abortion - to avoid the natural result of sexual activity.

oA passion to prevent the birth of "defectives" which led to her stating in her 1932 Plan for Peace that persons from "dysgenic groups" should be given their choice of sterilization or confinement on a farm for the rest of their lives.

Sanger was a member of the American Eugenics Society. For 96 years, Planned Parenthood has been actively spreading these philosophies.